Astrophysicist. Data enthusiast.

Sotiria Fotopoulou

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DAta-intensive astronomical analysis [d.i.an.a. — meet the team]

Within my group, we use large multiwavelength datasets to understand the impact of supermassive black holes in the evolution of galaxies. We develop automated methods for creating high fidelity multiwavelength datasets, harness machine-learning methods for object classification & physical parameter estimation, and explore the impact of AGN in galaxy evolution through the statistical analysis of large datasets.

Use the links below to learn more.

 

Public Codes

ADS-megalib [GitHub]

Merge all of your NASA/ADS libraries into one!

  • Export a combination of stored libraries into a single .bib file

  • Create merged libraries on your ads account

star - galaxy - QSO classification [GITHUB]

Unsupervised machine-learning classification - application of HDBSCAN

Astro-PostgreSQL Docker image [GITHUB]

Run a PostgreSQL deamon through docker, including the pg_sphere and pg_healpix extensions.

  • pg_sphere provides astronomy related definitions such as points, coordinates, etc

  • pg_healpix provides access to tessellation ID of sky coordinates.

AstronomicAL [GITHUB]

An interactive dashboard for visualisation, integration and classification of data using Active Learning presented in Stevens et al., 2021

INSPEC-Z [GITHUB]

Interactive visualisation and verification of 1D spectra with matplotlib.

  • Convenience functionality for managing large surveys, e.g. filtering, flag homogenisation

  • Simple conda installation and docker image (only for Mac OS)

 

where am i?


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Education

INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL

TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH, Germany
Dr. RER. NAT.[2009-2012]

University of athens, greece

M.Sc. PHYSICS WITH SPECIALIZATION IN ASTROPHYSICS [2007-2009]

University of athens, greece

B.Sc. PHYSICS WITH SPECIALIZATION IN ASTROPHYSICS [2002-2007]

Research

UNIVERSITY of bristol, UNITED KINGDOM

Lecturer [2023-NOW]

vice-chancellor’s fellow [2019-2023]

DURHAM UNIVERSITY, United kingdom

Swiss national Science foundation fellow [2017-2019]

University of Geneva, Switzerland

postdoc [2013-2017]

Interested in working on a projected with me?